page_title: Champéry
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Champéry / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La rue artisanale English: The Traditionnal street
context_page_description: Champéry is a municipality in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
context_section_description: As of  2010, Champéry had an unemployment rate of 2.8%.  As of 2008, there were 36 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 16 businesses involved in this sector.  43 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 14 businesses in this sector.  400 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 69 businesses in this sector.  There were 525 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.0% of the workforce.
  In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 383.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 29, all of which were in agriculture.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 40 of which 15 or (37.5%) were in manufacturing and 13 (32.5%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 314.  In the tertiary sector; 50 or 15.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 3.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 116 or 36.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 2 or 0.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 57 or 18.2% were in education and 1 was in health care.
  In 2000, there were 103 workers who commuted into the municipality and 196 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.9 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.  About 4.9% of the workforce coming into Champéry are coming from outside Switzerland.  Of the working population, 4.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 61% used a private car.
caption: Market day in Champéry
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